MBP Won't Run Off the Battery

I've had my computer for a little over a month, and the other day it stopped running off the battery. Everything is fine when I have the AC adapter plugged in, but the computer won't start up if it is disconnected. I ran the computer off the battery more often than not before this started happening. I removed the battery and put it back in a few times, but that didn't help. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks!

Mine did almost the exact same thing.
A few days after the update, it started registering 32 hours of remaining charge (33500+ MhA), and one day, all of a sudden, the battery just died.
Mac OS says there is no battery installed, obviously it won't charge or run on battery power, when I press the LED button it does nothing. It's just dead.
My machine is almost 2 months old... I called Apple and complained about this whole thing, because my machine has almost every other defect out there, including the whine, the almost unbearable temperatures, the moo, and the LED buzz... so I told them that enough was enough and that I wanted a new machine.
They just said I sould drop it off at the Apple Center, and THEY would decide if should get a new machine.
I feel so terribly frustrated. How is it possible that you spend $2000+ Dlls on a machine that after just 2 months does all these things, and still be treated unfairly, like an idiot, with arguments like "It's our decision if we replace the machine, or repair it..." ??
This is just not fair. But what can we do, right?

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